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Welcome to wikipedia's portal on Blues Harmonica.

Blues Harmonica is a harmonica genre based on the blues scale, often played in the twelve bar style. Blues harmonica is usually played on the ten-hole Richter-tuned harmonica, as opposed to the chromatic or tremolo harmonica, although some virtuoso players play blues on more than one type of harmonica.

Blues on the harmonica are most typically played in the second position, that is, using the 2 draw as the root of the key, followed by the 3 draw bend (Blue Third), the 4 blow, the 4 draw bend, the 4 draw, the 5 draw and the 6 blow.

The Twelve Bar chord progression is:

I	I	I	I

IV	I	V	I

V	IV	I	I/V (Turnaround)

Basics
 * Harmonica
 * Blues scale
 * Twelve-bar blues
 * Richter tuning
 * Richter-tuned_harmonica
 * Tablature

What is a Harmonica?
 * Aerophone
 * Mouth organ
 * Brass
 * Diatonic harmonica
 * Tremolo harmonica
 * Chromatic_harmonica
 * Hohner

Performance
 * Busking
 * One-Man Band